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Garrett Water Carburetor - 01/12/98

This file was originally posted on the KeelyNet BBS on December 3, 1993 as GARRETT1.ASC.

The Next Step in Energy Production, Engines and Lighting by Jerry W. Decker for KeelyNet (with apologies to the Dallas Morning News, the Van Nostrand Scientific Encylopedia and the US Patent Office) For years we have heard stories about a demonstration of a car that ran on water here in the Dallas area. Never was there any text substantiation or other documents relating details. Many of our friends had also heard the story with hints of a green pill or powder that was added to the water while in the gas tank that somehow made it combustible with no further actions taken beyond the simple ignition via a high intensity spark. About three years ago, our friends Howard and Joanne Bond sent us a short newspaper clipping describing the demonstration. The article indicates a patent was secured for the "something" that made the car run on water. That has kept me inspired all this time and made me keep an eye and ear out for additional information. The basic story as I heard it was that the inventor of the traffic light, Dad Garrett, failed to get a patent on the idea. Every city adopted his traffic light invention for which Dad Garrett received little in return. He and his son Charles invented other devices, among them a means of making an automobile engine run on water, but I never heard of a patent issued on this. To promote the discovery, a public demonstration was held at White Rock Lake in Dallas somewhere around 1934. The event was covered by news media of the day and we understand there was a Pathe' or Movietone newsreel. An automobile was towed to the lake site. We do not know the type of automobile or whether it was a 6 or 8 cylinder engine. A gallon of water was removed from the lake and put into the gas tank. The car was then started and driven around the lake with no problems. Several months back, I decided to do whatever it would take to dig up this patent, if it existed. I knew from the article that a Dad Garrett and his son Charles had invented this "something". I did not know the year of this alledged patent and so had to go through several volumes looking for anything relating to Garrett. Sometimes inventors assign their invention to companies and that posed an additional problem if such was the case.

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I finally did find a patent issued to Charles H. Garrett on July 2, 1935 and called an ELECTROLYTIC CARBURETOR. The number was 2,006,676. Since the microfiches only go back to about the mid-40's, I had no option except to order it from the patent office. A letter was sent to them with $2.00 ($1.50 for the patent and .50 for mailing costs). After almost 3 months, I got a letter saying that patents had now gone up to $3.00. So, another letter with the extra $1.00 FINALLY got me the patent about 3 weeks later. I have been calling it a HYDROLYTIC CARBURETOR because of WHAT it is combusting and have been totally amazed at the simplicity of the technology. Several of our associates have received advance copies of it and are quite impressed, saying they will build and test it. We too will test it and openly share our findings. Please feel free to pass this file around. The newspaper articles are included in this file for the exact information as published from the 1935 demonstration to the latest modern report of which I am aware. Bob Aldrich of Survivor BBS in LA gave us additional patent numbers pertaining to the Horvath patents for electrolysis to power an automobile engine. Of those patents, the Garrett patent was NEVER listed as a "prior art" patent. That is quite odd as it PRECEDES several of the points made by the Horvath patent, not to mention being SO SIMPLE. Experiments will be carried out on the Garrett design and we and our fellow experimenters will share our findings for those interested. The potential is ENORMOUS. What follows is the story confirming that no green pill was involved in the process and which Howard and Joanne Bond sent to KeelyNet. Dallas Morning News - 1992 - Long Format Column : TEXAS SKETCHES Headline : Early inventor builds water-powered auto Date : September 6, 1992 Section : TEXAS & SOUTHWEST Page : 48A Edition : HOME FINAL Author : A.C. Greene Word Count : 398 Text : The late Henry "Dad" Garrett was a multi-talented Dallas inventor with a bent for electrical contrivances, and in 1935, he and his son, C.H. Garrett, patented and exhibited an automobile that ran on water -- actually, on hydrogen after the water was broken down by electrolysis. file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administr...Garrett%20Water%20Carburetor%20-%2001-12-98.htm (2 of 26) [4/7/2002 3:07:08 PM]

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Dad Garrett was already famous for his work. In 1920 he set up WRR in Dallas, the world's first municipal radio station, and was its first announcer. He was the first man to build a radio in his car, and he developed radio transmission from the car for police use. He also invented an automatic electric traffic signal, possibly the nation's first. Eugene P. Aldredge recalled the Garretts: "I had rented a small office on the seventh floor of the Allen building in downtown Dallas for my letter service, and one of my early customers was the eighteenth floor National Electric Signal Co. owned by Dad Garrett and son C.H.. "I was informed that the two were experimenting with an automobile that used water for fuel, that they carried on their experiments in a workshop adjacent to their office on the top floor, and that two separate explosions (from dangerous hydrogen) had nearly blown a hole in the roof of the building...Neither was hurt." On September 8, 1935, The Dallas Morning News first announced that the water-fuel concept worked -- at least it worked for "several minutes," the article reported. A few months later, Pathe' News filmed the car driving along Garland Road with the driver stopping at White Rock Lake to fill the fuel tank with water before cruising off. In 1970, Karen Klinefelter wrote, "Aptly enough, the film was shown on Pathe's Stranger than Fiction feature program." C.H. Garrett said the only items needed to convert a gasoline-engine auto to a water burner was an electrolytic carburetor and installation of a generator of double normal capacity for the breaking down of the water. He claimed instant starts in any weather, no fire hazards, cooler operation and plenty of power and speed. The car was not marketed, and no one seems to know its ultimate destiny. Both Garretts died a number of years ago. [A.C. Greene is an author and Texas historian who lives in Salado.]

The original September 8, 1935 article that I found on microfilm in the Dallas Library.

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Dallasite Patents Invention Which He Claims Substitutes Water for Gasoline as Fuel C.H. Garrett, Dallas inventor, gave a private demonstration Saturday of a recently patented contrivance which he said substituted water for gasoline as fuel for internal combustion engines. He said it broke up the water by electrolysis into its component gases, oxygen and hydrogen, using the highly explosive hydrogen for fuel in the motor cylinder. The working model operated a four-cylinder engine for several minutes in the demonstration, at varying speeds and with several starts and stops. Garrett said he had operated the engine continuously for more than forty-eight hours. The inventor said the idea itself was not new. He explained that difficulty had been encountered heretofore in attempts to store the dangerously inflammable hydrogen. He claimed to have AVOIDED that trouble by making and exploding the gas in the SAME PROCESS without a storage chamber in which the flames from the motor cylinders might react. Water, he explained, is broken down into its component gases by passage of an electric current through it from electrodes immersed in the water. Hydrogen collects at the negative pole and oxygen at the positive. The hydrogen, Garrett said, is MIXED WITH AIR (78% nitrogen and other gases...Vanguard) and introduced DIRECTLY INTO THE CYLINDERS. The inventor said he had been working on the device for eight years, assisted by his father, Henry Garrett, traffic signal engineer for the city of Dallas, inventor of the traffic signal system, now in use here and holder of several patents on such contrivances. Garrett said attachment of the electrolytic carburetor and installation of a generator of about DOUBLE normal capacity to furnish power for the breaking down of the water were the only changes needed to convert a gasoline burning automobile into a WATER BURNER! He said the electrolysis chamber would have to VARY IN SIZE with the size file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administr...Garrett%20Water%20Carburetor%20-%2001-12-98.htm (4 of 26) [4/7/2002 3:07:08 PM]

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of the motor used. One of ABOUT A QUART CAPACITY being big enough for the ordinary automobile. He claimed instantaneous starting in any weather, elimination of fire hazards, cooler motor operation and fulfilling of all motor requirements in power and speed.

Problems with Hydrogen as an Engine Fuel One of the problems with the burning of hydrogen in an internal combustion engine is that of EMBRITTLEMENT. This occurs when the walls of the cylinder become saturated with hydrogen ions. Corrosion Embrittlement - the embrittlement or loss of ductility of metals due to corrosion, usually as a result of intergranular attack which may not readily be visible. As you can tell from this definition, the metal becomes fragile or porous and can shatter or fracture upon impact, thus damaging the engine. There is also the problem of excess heat. However, with the Garrett patent and verification by modern research, both problems have been overcome. As to embrittlement, the acidity of water has been found to have a great effect on the speed and the degree to which a material can be dissolved. Generally speaking, the acidity of a system is measured in units called the pH (hydogen concentration), ranging from 1 to 14. Neutral solutions have a pH of 7. A pH less than 7 means that the solution is ACIDIC and more than 7 means that it is ALKALINE. When a metal becomes corroded because of the acidity of the solution in which it is immersed, it is due to an interchange of hydrogen ions in the solution with the atoms of the exposed metal. When the solution is liquid, the metal goes into the solution and hydrogen tends to plate out on the piece. Once a hydrogen film has deposited on the exposed surfaces, the dissolving of the metal will cease. Oxygen plays an important part in this process, because the oxygen dissolved in water will react with the film of hydrogen to eliminate it by forming water which allows the corrosion process to proceed. The following ignition and Btu charts help to compare gasoline and other fuels to hydrogen.

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Ignition Temperature of Fuels in Air Combustible

Formula

Temperature in Fahrenheit

Sulfur

S

470

Charcoal

C

650

Fixed Carbon (coal)

C

765 to 1115 (depending on type)

Acetylene

C H

580 to 825

2 2 Ethane

C H

880 to 1165

2 6 Ethylene

C H

900 to 1020

2 4 Hydrogen

H

1065 to 1095 2

Methane

CH

1170 to 1380 4

Carbon Monoxide

CO

1130 to 1215

Kerosine

490 to 560

Gasoline

500 to 800

-------------------------------------------------------------------Combustible

High Btu

High Btu.

% other gases for

per pound

per cubic foot

Combustion lb for lb Oxygen

Hydrogen

61,095

325

7.94

Nitrogen 26.41

Air 34.34

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Propane

2,524

21,669

3.63

12.07

15.70

Butane

3,271

21,321

3.58

11.91

15.49

--------------------------------------------------------------------

When ignited, hydrogen burns in air with a pale blue to colorless, nonluminous flame, yielding H20. When mixed with air, the flammability limit is 4-74% hydrogen. When mixed with oxygen, the flammability limit is 4-94% hydrogen. Care must always be exercised where there may be hydrogen mixtures with air or oxygen because VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS may occur. So we now understand that hydrogen burns with a very hot, explosive and yet invisible flame. To date, the cost has been prohibitive for providing commercial home type uses. Not to mention the generally accepted yet quite faulty idea of a CENTRALIZED source of power distribution. Such reliance on central systems simply sustains the current need for each of us to be dependent and supportive of these very large institutions. Eventually, society will see how freedom, independence and prosperity will come from the LOCAL generation of power and food wherever possible. The high temperatures produced when hydrogen reacts with oxygen or fluorine, plus the low molecular weights of the product gases, have made hydrogen a prime fuel for rocket propulsion, since rocket thrust increases directly with the temperature and inversely with the molecular weight of the exhaust gases. Some studies have indicated that the cost of transporting and distributing hydrogen by pipeline may be less than the cost of transporting and distributing electric power. Presumably existing natural gas pipelines and distribution systems can be adapted to the use of hydrogen. Although hydrogen has a net heating value of only 275 Btus per cubic foot, as compared with 913 Btus per cubic foot for methane, the lower density and viscosity of hydrogen make it possible for a pipeline to deliver about the same amount of thermal energy as with methane, at a somewhat higher compression cost. The thermal energy in hydrogen can be utilized more efficiently in home heating than natural gas, because hydrogen can be burned in nonconventional heaters, with no loss of heat, since its only primary combustion product is water. By using flameless catalytic heaters, nitrogen oxide can be eliminated. However, oxygen depletion of closed spaces will still present a hazard. file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administr...Garrett%20Water%20Carburetor%20-%2001-12-98.htm (7 of 26) [4/7/2002 3:07:08 PM]

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Hydrogen mixed with gasoline has generated as much as a 50% improvement in overall efficiency. A test motorcar obtained 19 miles per pound of hydrogen. However, since liquid hydrogen weighs only 0.58 pound per gallon, the mileage figure was 11 miles per gallon of liquid hydrogen. The use of liquid hydrogen as a motor fuel thus presents several major problems despite its basic attractions.

Hydrogen for home heating Using hydrogen for home heating requires some other considerations. Because hydrogen burns with a hotter flame, some design features of current heating apparatus would require changes. The energy content per unit mass of liquid hydrogen is about 2.75 times greater than that of hydrocarbon fuels. On the other hand, there are only 325 Btus per standard cubic foot of hydrogen as compared with about 1,000 Btus per standard cubic foot of natural gas. The ignition energy of hydrogen is about 0.02 millijoules, which is less than 7% that of natural gas.

Hydrogen for lighting Lighting via the use of hydrogen can be accomplished by the phenomenon of CONDOLUMINESCENCE, a cold process. A phosphor is spread on the inside of a tube similar to the conventional fluorescent lamp. Upon coming in contact with the phosphor, small amounts of hydrogen combine with the oxygen in the air to excite bright luminescence in the phosphor. (Is this the secret of the mysterious "perpetual lamps" as found in ancient tombs?)

Electrolysis of water The theoretical power required to produce hydrogen from water is 79 KiloWatts per 1,000 cubic feet of hydrogen gas. Modern electrolyzers consist of: ●

1) Tank cells with monopolar electrodes. Porous diaphragms separate the alternate

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cathodes and anodes to prevent gas mixing. The anodes and cathodes are connected in parallel to keep the required voltage at approximately 2 volts and to permit high current densities. This arrangement requires a large floor area. ●

2) Bipolar electrodes, connected in series and suitably insulated. The electrodes are cathodic on one side; anodic on the other side. This arrangement requires less floor space, is more complex, and requires high voltages.

High pressure can also increase electrolyzer efficiency. A commercially available electrolyzer operates at pressures of 30 atmospheres (about 450 PSI), 194 degrees F., requiring 300 amperes of electric current at 217 volts. Other units operating at current densities of 800 amps per square foot can produce up to 4,400 pounds of hydrogen per hour. So, with all the above, we can see both the promise and some of the problems with the use of hydrogen as fuel. Personally, I was amazed while digging this info from the Van Nostrand Encyclopedia on finding that hydrogen could be used to produce light.

Further Info As stated above, the primary problems with Hydrogen are the excessive heat and the embrittlement problem. Both problems have been solved according to a NOVA video entitled Hydrogen - the Invisible Flame. The use of a stoichiometric mix of hydrogen to oxygen (as in Yull Brown's Gas), with outside air eliminates the embrittlement problem while water vapor sucked into the intake cools the exploding gas mixture to reduce the heat. Both of these techniques were pioneered by Charles Garrett, tested and patented in 1935. The text of the Garrett patent follows. Patented July 2, 1935

2,006,676

United States Patent Office 2,006,676

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Electrolytic Carburetor Charles H. Garrett, Dallas, Texas Application July 1, 1932, Serial No. 620,364 Renewed November 30, 1934

5 Claims (Cl. 204-5)

This invention relates

to

carburetors

and

it

has

reference to an electrolytic carburetor by means of

particular

which water may

be broken up into its hydrogen and oxygen constituents and the gases so formed suitably mixed with air.

The principal object

of

the invention is to provide in a device of

the character described, a mechanism readily decomposed into

its

by means of which water may be

constituents,

and

the

constituents

intimately mixed with each other and with air.

Another object of

the

invention

is

to

provide means whereby the

electrolyte level in the carburetor may be maintained at a more or less constant level

regardless of fluctuations in fluid pressure at

the fluid inlet of the carburetor.

Another object of the invention relative amount of

is

to

provide

means

air mixed with the hydrogen and

whereby the

oxygen

may

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regulated as desired.

Still another object

of

the invention is the provision of means to

prevent loss of hydrogen and oxygen

gases

during

periods in which

these gases are not being drawn from the carburetor.

Still another object

of

whereby the hydrogen

and

formed in separate

the

invention is the provision

means

oxygen resulting from electrolysis may be

compartments,

invention is the

of

provision

of

and

a

further

object

means to periodically

of

the

reverse

the

direction of current flow and thereby alternate the evolution of the gases in the separate compartments, to be later intermingled.

With the foregoing

objects

as

paramount,

particular reference to its salient arrangement of parts,

taken

in

features

connection

the of

invention

has

construction

and

with the

accompanying

drawings, wherein: -

Figure 1 is a view in vertical section of one form of carburetor. Figure 2 is a modified form. Figure 3 is

a

diagrammatic

view of a pole changer, showing its

actuating mechanism, and Figure 4 is a wiring diagram for

the

modified form of carburetor

shown in Figure 2.

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Continuing more in detail with the drawings, reference

is primarily

directed to Figure 1 in which the reference numeral 1 designates the carburetor housing, which

is

preferably constructed of bakelite or

other suitable insulating material.

The housing 1 is so designed as

to divide the carburetor into a float

chamber

2 and gas generating

chamber 4, connected by a fluid passage 3.

Water UNDER PRESSURE opening 5 which

is

FORCED

communicates

into

with

medium of the sediment chamber 6 which is closed

needle

A float

9

surrounds

operation.

a

carburetor

the

needle

Depending

opposite sides of the needle valve 8. shown.

not

in

from

the cover 10 to intervals on

The members 12 are pivoted to

The weighted outer ends of the members 12

rest on top of the float 9, and their annular groove in

is

the needle valve 8 and is free to

the float chamber 2 are two ears 11, located at spaced

as

an

valve orifice 7,

valve 8 when the device

move vertically relative thereto.

the ears 11,

through

the float chamber 2 through the

and

by

the

inner ends are received in an

the collar 13 which is rigidly

attached

to

the

needle valve 8.

Within the gas

generating

chamber 4, a series of spaced, depending

plates 14 are suspended from a horizontal

member 15 to which a wire

16 has electrical contact through the medium of the

bolt

17, which

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extends inwardly through

the

housing

1

and

is threaded into the

horizontal member 15.

A second series of plates 18 is located

intermediate

the plates 14

and attached to the horizontal member 19, and has electrical contact with the wire 20 through the bolt 21.

A gas passageway

22,

in

which

a

butterfly

valve 23 is located,

communicates with the gas generating

chamber

24.

communication

An air

inlet

passageway 22 above

chamber the

25

has

orifice

24.

A

4

through an orifice with

the

gas

downwardly opening check

valve 26 is in control of the openings 27, and is held inoperatively closed by means of light spring 28.

An adjustable auxiliary air valve

29 is provided in the wall of the

gas passageway 22, which air valve is closed by the 23 when the

butterfly

valve

is

butterfly valve

closed, but communicates with the

outside air when the butterfly valve is open.

The operation of the device is as follows :

The chambers 2 and 4 are first

filled

to

the

level

solution of weak sulphuric acid or other electrolyte the passage of

'a'

with

a

not changed by

current therethrough, and the opening 5 is connected

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to a tank of water, not shown.

The wire 16 is next connected to

the

positive

pole

of

a storage

battery or other source of direct current and the

wire

negative pole.

carburetor

Since

the

conductor of electricity, hydrogen will be

solution current

within will

the flow

20

to

the is

therethrough

given off from the negative or cathode

a and

plates

18

and oxygen from the positive or anode plates 14.

The butterfly valve

23

into communication with acting on the

top

of

downwardly as shown

in

is opened and the gas passageway 22 brought a

partial

vacuum.

Atmospheric

the check valve 26 causes it dotted

lines.

liberated from the water at the plates

The

hydrogen

air

entering

be

forced

and

oxygen

18 and 14 are drawn upwardly

through the orifice 24 covered by the check valve 30 subsequently mixed with

to

pressure

through

where they are

the openings 27 and

through the auxiliary air valve 29.

When it is desired to reduce the the plates 18

and

reduced, and when

flow

of

hydrogen and oxygen from

14, the current flowing through

device

the current is interrupted the flow ceases.

the butterfly valve 23 is moved to

operations

is When

closed position, the check valve

26 is automatically closed by the spring 28. off during these

the

Any EXCESS

GAS

given

IS STORED in the space above the fluid

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where it is ready for subsequent use.

Water is converted

into

herein described, but electrolyte in the

its gaseous

by

the dilute sulphuric acid or

carburetor

REMAINS

destroyed by electrolysis, and the made of bakelite

constituents

and

other

UNCHANGED,

parts

in

the

device suitable

since it is not

contact therewith are

lead or other material not

attacked

by

the

electrolyte.

The structure shown

in

Figure

2 is substantially the same as that

shown in Figure 1 with the exception

that

the

modified

structure

embraces a larger gas generating chamber which is divided of an insulating

plate

manner as in

34

provides a series

gas

generating chamber 33 from

in which the float 35 operates

Figure

1.

of

means

31 and is further provided with a depending

baffle plate 32 which separates the the float chamber

by

in

the

same

Moreover, the structure shown in Figure 2

spaced

depending

plates

36

which

are

electrically connected to the wire 37, and a second series of similar plates 38

which

are

electrically connected to the wire 39

and are spaced apart from the plates

36 by the insulating plate 31.

Gases generated on the surfaces of the plates 36 and through the orifice

39a

into

38 pass upward

the gas passageway 40 where they are

mixed with air as explained in the description of Figure 1.

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A pipe 51 bent as shown in Figure

2

passes

downwardly through the

housing of the carburetor and has a series of spaced

apertures

in its horizontal portion beneath the plates 36 and 38. opening check valve

53

is

'a'

An upwardly

in control of the air inlet 54.

When a

partial vacuum exists in the chamber 33, air is drawn in through the opening 54 and subsequently passes 'a'.

upwardly

through

the apertures

This air tends to remove any bubbles of gas collecting

plates 36 and

38 and also tends to cool the electrolyte.

valve 53 automatically closes when carburetor and thereby

on the

The check

a gas pressure exists within the

prevents the electrolyte from

being

forced

out of the opening 54.

In order to

provide

for

alternate evolution of the gases from the

plates 36 and 38, a pole changer 41,

shown in Figure 3 is provided,

which is actuated periodically by the motor 42 which drives the worm 43 and the gear 44 and causes oscillations of the member 45 which is connected by a

spring

46 to the arm 47, thereby causing

the

pole

changer to snap from one position to the other.

In operation, the carburetor shown in Figure 2 is connected as shown in the wiring

diagram

of

suitable source of

direct

rheostat 49, switch

50,

Figure 4. current

A storage battery 48 or other is

connected

pole changer 41 and to the

to

a

variable

carburetor

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shown.

Thus the rate of evolution of the gases can be controlled by

the setting of

the

rheostat 49 and the desired alternate evolution

of the gases in the compartments of

the

carburetor is accomplished

by means of the periodically operated pole changer 41.

Manifestly, the construction

shown

is

capable

of

considerable

modification and such modification as is considered within the scope and meaning of

the

appended

claims

is also considered within the

spirit and intent of the invention.

What is claimed is:

1)

An electrolytic carburetor including float means

to

said carburetor,

control means

an

anode and a cathode,

the level of the electrolyte to

electrolysis with air, and a

mix

the

check

gases

within

resulting

from

valve independent of said

float means to control ingress of air to said carburetor.

2)

An electrolytic carburetor including anode and cathode plates, a float

actuated

within said

valve

in control of the electrolyte

level

carburetor, means to mix the gases resulting from

electrolysis with air, a check valve in control of said means, a second check valve independent

of said float actuated valve

to prevent loss of gases from said carburetor.

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3)

An electrolytic carburetor for producing mixtures of hydrogen, oxygen and air, including a series of spaced connected anode within said

plates

partially immersed in the electrolyte

carburetor, a series

cathode plates

and electrically

spaced

between

of said

electrically

connected

anode plates,

a

float

operated valve in control of the electrolyte level within said carburetor, an air inlet to said carburetor and a check valve in control of said air inlet.

4)

An

electrolytic carburetor for generating hydrogen and oxygen

gases from water and for mixing said gases with air, including an anode

and cathode paritally

immersed

in

within said carburetor, float actuated means water consumed

whereby

to

within said device, means for

maintain

a

an

electrolyte

to

replace

the

constant fluid level

mixing the said gases with air,

and a check valve in control of said latter means.

5)

An electrolytic carburetor including an anode float actuated

means

and

a cathode,

to control the level of the electrolyte

within said carburetor, means

to mix the gases resulting from

electrolysis with air, a check valve in control of said latter means and

means

to

periodically

reverse the

direction

current through said carburetor.

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The drawings are;

Figure 1 is a view in vertical section of one form of carburetor.

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Figure 2 is a modified form.

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Figure 3 is a diagrammatic view of a pole changer, showing its actuating mechanism, and

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Figure 4 is a wiring diagram for the modified form of carburetor shown in Figure 2.

Useful tips for experimenters The electrolyte mixture used in the Horvath patent is 25% potassium hydroxide with 75% of distilled water. This is a good initial mix for the Garrett patent and if you choose to experiment with it, we recommend you stick with what works, i.e. the Garrett idea of battery acid (weak file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administ...arrett%20Water%20Carburetor%20-%2001-12-98.htm (22 of 26) [4/7/2002 3:07:09 PM]

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sulphuric acid) in a beginning mixture of 25% sulphuric acid with 75% water (should be lakewater based on the newspaper articles...(g)....). So many people want to jump from base level to a flying saucer or free energy generator without proving the basic phenomenon. This causes a loss of confidence and a waste of money because the "improved" design did not work and abandonment of the project. Other options include : ●

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1) Magnets - either alternating fields or preferably monopoles (i.e. north or south ONLY) 2) An Ultraviolet source to help break down the water 3) Injection of sound either as a "tickler" or at high amplitudes as in PUHA1 on KeelyNet, with a frequency of 600 cps 4) Injection of sound as Keely recommends at one or all of the following: 620 - 630 12,000 - 42,800 cycles per second 5) Textured surfaces for the electrodes to allow the more rapid release of the gases as they are formed, "oozing" off easier into large bubbles 6) Large surface electrodes, convolutions, etc. for greater generation of gases (lead electrodes best) 7) Heat is generated in the process, but the water bonds would be broken much easier and faster if the electrolyte chamber was heated 8) DC with an AC signal at shock excitation amplitudes, the DC would keep the water excited, the AC would shock it at any of the above frequencies

Caveats and safety warnings Hydrogen is EXPLOSIVE! Hydrogen is INVISIBLE WHEN IT IS BURNING!

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Resonance of water molecules at high amplitudes could possibly EXPLODE the hydrogen/oxygen bond (refer DANART1 on KeelyNet)! In a chamber filled with water, this could be DISASTROUS, possibly leading to a chain reaction!! So take every possible precaution if you choose to experiment with sonics!!! We here at Vanguard Sciences/KeelyNet and our Associates believe in and practice the free and open release of information relating to energy production, health and gravity control technologies. Such information should not be monopolized, suppressed or otherwise restricted from benefitting the public at large. If you choose to experiment with this device, we urge you to be extremely careful and would greatly appreciate your findings or comments. We will also report on what we find, perhaps with many minds and approaches, this can yet be a viable project. Hybridizing of many techniques to achieve an end result is THE WAY! Imagine, one simple process that can provide: ●

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1) heat - through the burning of hydrogen/oxygen 2) power for local energy generation - the explosive energy to drive a piston to drive a shaft to drive a generator. That generator charges a battery network which feeds an inverter (converts DC to AC) to run your house

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3) motive power for transport power - explosive energy drives the piston to drive your vehicle 4) light - condoluminescence - hydrogen/oxygen exposed to phosphor coated surfaces for light generation 5) sound amplification - flame speakers where flame is electrostatically deflected at audio rates to produce sound, the hydrogen/oxygen mix is generated LOCALLY rather than using bottled gases such as propane, butane, etc.

Are we so collectively stupid that we can't duplicate today what was done almost 60 years ago and improve on it? Please pass this around freely and reprint it if you want.

Additional sites/items of interest; Original Monoatomic Gas from Water Discoverer - 12/10/97 Yull Brown was NOT the first!! Professor Yull Brown promoter of what is incorrectly called 'Brown's Gas' George Wiseman's Eagle R&D Page - 07/19/97 Excellent site for those who want to BUILD things that work! Wiseman has the right attitude, built it, test it, sell working plans to support MORE research. Support this guy, he is on target!!! In a recent communication, George says he has GREATLY IMPROVED the oxy/hyd welding machines sold by Yull file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administ...arrett%20Water%20Carburetor%20-%2001-12-98.htm (25 of 26) [4/7/2002 3:07:09 PM]

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Brown, much smaller, and far greater gaseous output for the power applied. BlackLight Power Home - Hydrogen power Off Grid Appliance power requirements - 12/27/97

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